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vermiculated

adjective, verb

vermiculated is an adjective meaning “Decorated with lines like worm tracks” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-R-M-I-C-U-L-A-T-E-D, and it appears about once in every 58 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does vermiculated mean?

adjective

  1. 1

    Decorated with lines like worm tracks.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of vermiculate (a form of vermiculate)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of vermiculated

  • more vermiculated comparative
  • most vermiculated superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is vermiculated?

Vermiculated appears about once in every 58 million words in written English, the 237,177th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Vermiculated in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense Decorated with lines like worm tracks:

LanguageWords
Frenchvermiculé

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.